The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-13

nothing to do with party politics, the
fact has been much commented upon
that the President was careful not to
appoint republicans who are favorable
to the denomination of Mr.. Blaine
SOME of the Presidents special
friends are reported as having already
figured out six hundred ten votes out
of total of eight hundred twenty for
Mr.. Cleveland in the coming national
democratic convention. This count in
cludes all the New England States ex-
cept Connecticut, which is conceded to
Barnum and Eaton against Cleveland,
New York, Ohio and so on. Penn
sylvania is conceded to Sam Randall.
OF course Mr.. Cleveland would decline
a denomination, for you will remember
that in 1884 he put himself squarely on
record against second term
JUDGE WHEELER in the United
States circuit court has ordered, in the
suit of Receiver Winters against
Albert Sowles and other directors of
the First National Bank of st. Adams,
that the defendants pay S32 $50, as
they are chargeable on the loss of the
loan of 100000 to Edward A. Sowles.
The court holds that directors of
national banks who deliberately violate
the clause of the national banking act ,
which forbids the loaning of more than
ten per cent of the capital of the bank
to any one person, are individually
liable to the bank for the debt if the
borrower does not pay it.
WITH the newspaper press distrust
of the interstate law seems to be the
rule. The Albany Erening Journal
says: " Indeed, it would seem to be the
chief duty of the commission to devise
ways by which the law may not be car
ried out instead of perfecting methods
for its enforcement. In the period be-
tween the enactment and the date for
its operation there has been a remarka-
BILE change of sentiment toward the
measure. In view of the revelations
of the way the bill will work it is safe
to say that congress would not now pass
the bill, and in December there will I'M
questonably be strong sentiment in
congress in favor of its repeal"
THE action of the interstate commits
sion in relieving the southern railway
and steamship lines from the operations
of the long and short-haul clause of the
new law, unless such relief is extended
to the ether lines affected by the statute,
will be apt to cause much dissatisfac-
ton. 1t has already been unfavorably
criticised by prominent official of the
Pennsylvania railroad, and undoubtedly
other railroad men in the North will
take the same view of it. The southern
roads have had precisely the same OPP
portunities to prepare for the law as
those in the North. AS for water COM
petition, it exists pretty much all over
the country. 1t will be found impos-
sible to enforce the law in one part of
the country and not in another The
public is waiting for the official con-
struction of the fourth section of the
act, and until that is furnished by the
commission all the lines affected by the
act would seem to merit like treatment.
Tribune.
A WRITER in the Chicago Inter- Ocean
says: "There is one thing that has
puzzled me good DEAL" said knight
of the quill can't understand why
so many people regard the newspaper
business as unlike every other when
they come to dispose of contributions
of any kind. If man selling apples or
potatoes comes to your door and you
tell him that you don't want any he ac-
F, cepts the situation without any show
of resentment, and endeavors to dis
pose of his wares elsewhere; but there
are hundreds and thousands of young
people writing poems, stories and
sketches who seem to believe that
when they offer any contribution to a
paper it must, as a matter of courtesy
and business, be accepted. If it is re-
jected they regard the rejection as in
some way reflection on their ability
and an insult to them personally.
Therefore there is more friction in deal
ing with newspaper than with any
other business establishment, and the
fault is not with the newspaper"
GOVERNOR ORMsBEE has appointed
ex-Congressman James M. Tyler of
Brattleboro, President Ezra Brainerd
of Middlebury College and Principal S.
w. Landon of the Burlington public
schools commission under the act of
last session that was drawn by Mr..
Marsh of Woodstock. These are ex-
cellent selections. The duties of the
commissioners, as defined by the act,
will be :" to revise, redraft, and so far
as may by said committee be deemed
necessary, draw up new bill, re-
jecting all or as many of the sections
of the school law now in force as they
may deem desirable, and substituting
therefor such new sections as will best
add to the efficiency and improve the
public schools of the state, and report
bill to the general assembly at its next
biennial session." The governor is
authorized to contract with the com
missioners for their services and to
cause to be printed five hundred copies
of their report. The commission has
organized and will hold another meet
ing in June.
THE Manchester Mirror and Farmer
says of the interstate commerce law
" Most of the -four used in New Hamp-
shire comes from the West. Even our
granger friends, who were red-hot for
the passage of this bill, do not raise
their own wheat. The first effect of
the bill is to advance the freight on